This is the thread where we talk about the band Witch

"Huge buzz surrrounding "WITCH" - the latest mascis project that recently roared thru town like lemmy on a bender. Crazy talk of lawyers, signings, the works. Wonder if J will mention it tonight when dino junior reunites on Craig Ferguson."

How on earth are you people finding a band called WITCH on slsk though??

Anybody remember the Upside Down Cross record w/ Mascis on drums?

better than feathers & later dino jr probably.

I guess it's official, then - metal is the new freak folk.

i've been saying that for two years now.

Seriously, something is fishy here. I've been Googling for ten minutes and I can't imagine where you'd have 'read' that little news item about Satya Sai, the 'girl' you refer to. There are only three distinct places in the ether you may have heard about this, and the knowledge of any of them would make you a bonafide free-folker yourself. So some clean, Speed - who are you and why are you baiting people that you KNOW post here?

By the way, I don't know about Devendra or Jackie O, but No Neck have been doing metal long before it was 'popular' and to my knowledge, there isn't a currently active 'metal' band featuring any of it's members. I'm pretty sure Angelblood broke up some time ago.

FWIW, the Witch album sounds great.

eh, is lycanthroat broken up?

So what exactly is it that people like about the boring Witch record, besides cutting their old hero some slack? I don't get the Sabbath and Blue Cheer comparisons at all; in fact, I'm skeptical that the people saying that have ever really listened to those bands. Useless singer, too -- completely forgettable, I thought. What am I missing?

-- xhuxk (xedd...), March 28th, 2006 8:23 AM. (link)

OTM. it's black mountain all over again.

Disappointing, especially after hearing someone compare it to Pentagram...

[Can't stand Dinosaur JR, either, for full disclosure. Always wanted to like them, but just can't stand the sound of that guy's voice and the guitar playing is often just annoying and one trick pony-ish. Saw em twice (Lolapalooza and at NYU for like 4 bucks) and walked out both times (well, at Lolapalooza, we got some food, or something, since we didn't want to leave!)... Honestly, with the possible exception of Pavement (whose albums I can kind of stand), the worst live band I've ever seen.]

Sorry for the ramblin'!

Some very good guitar work, and though Mascis is a bit loosey-goosey, he is just pounding. Everyone wants to compare to Sabbath, but this crew has none of the jazz based changes of the Sabbath rhythm section, which is what makes Sabbath Sabbath. Everyone has ripped the guitar sound - Witch is no different in that regard - but nobody swings like Sabbath. Bill and Geezer are unique.

Befitting the Mt. Rushmores/Freedoms/Hookfoots of the time. (Although nothing on it is as good as Freedom's "Toe Grabber.") Completely OTM. Unfortunately, the music is worse than the Mt. Rushmore's (really hard to accomplish), Hookfoot (a little harder to do) and Freedom (not hard to accomplish unless you aim for the first album where they were still doing Procol Harum/Parliaments/the Herd/60's R&B combo gone psyche stuff ).

If you want something that is the actuality of the theoretical promise of Witch, get the new Tucky Buzzard retrospective, in every self-respecting record store now by courtesy of Ryko distribution. The problem with all the bands that imply they're doing retro is that they never actually do real retro, just a shitty facsimile of it. They get only the bad skin and hair right. Also, you could get Toad's Live in Basel '72 or Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs' Lock Up Your Mothers and at least thirty others which I should probably list but, y'know, I've done it here, there and everywhere awready, ask the dudes on Rolling Metal.

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great album, somewhat underrated.

more stoner, less psych than Uncle Acid but more or less the same.
only 3 years before.

Their second album was even better. Kind of bummed they stopped.

They have a new album out. It's great. Here's the single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZthROVlHl8

I caught a bit of their set at Glastonbury and they were a big disappointment. More due to the bad sound mixing other than anything else though

pretty sure the Witch that the thread is referring to earlier is not the Zamrock crew that Now-Again have been reissuing and were on at Glastonbury !?

Which Witch is which?

Saw them in Bristol a couple of nights before Glastonbury and they were FANTASTIC. Certainly helped along by a local rhythm section who absolutely bodied the tunes. I was really impressed